Aston Villa 2-1 Excellent Ipswich Town Post Match Thread

[saunders_heroes]

Oh and the pen to us was nailed on. From where I was sitting (lower Holte) you could see their defender pull back McGinn just as he was about to attack the ball. A stone wall penalty. Lambert should shut his miserable mouth and scuttle off back to Ipswich with his tail between his legs.

[LukeJames]

I'm surprised that there is any debate about our penalty to be honest, he pulled McGinns shirt 5 yards in front of the ref.

Their penalty claim while it was accidental by Elphick, I'd be going mad if it was against us.

[Villa Lew]

From the highlights I saw thought both penalty or non penalty decisions could have gone either way. Shame Tammy didn't get his hat trick but what a striker, re Albert's disallowed goal, he should never have been offside in the first place, he could see clearly across the line.

Was wondering what the fans thought of James Collins' performance.

[Clampy]

From the highlights I saw thought both penalty or non penalty decisions could have gone either way. Shame Tammy didn't get his hat trick but what a striker, re Albert's disallowed goal, he should never have been offside in the first place, he could see clearly across the line.

Was wondering what the fans thought of James Collins' performance.

Other than give the ball straight to one of our players in the second half, i thought Collins had a decent game for them.

[saunders_heroes]

Collins was rock solid yesterday - immensely better than either Chester and Elphick. It’s a pity we didn’t keep him on for the short term.

[London Villan]

Collins was/is exactly what we need. What was all the ripping up contracts because he was injured stories about then?

[mike]

Some utter drivel gets spouted about "soft" penalties. What does that garbage even mean?

Did Judge foul McGinn? Yes, he quite clearly and obviously did. It's a foul. It was in the box, so it's a penalty. There is no debate to be had.

I think that there are grey areas between robust challenges and fouls and ball to hand/hand to ball and lots of other aspects of a fast moving contact sport. When a penalty is given for something in one of those grey areas, a decision that maybe five referees out of ten fully sighted would give and five wouldn’t then it’s what some would call a soft penalty. I was on the half way line and I didn’t see anything wrong but lots in the Holte End did.

[Legion]

traffic was a nightmare

This is what happens when the owners tell all and sundry that they're not bothered about the traffic management flow outside of Villa Park.

Perhaps this might have been a factor?

[mr underhill]

I actually thought SJM took a dive - but I don't care because we won. Sometimes you need luck on your side and it was with us yesterday when we needed it most. But for a post and a penalty decision that also went our way, they would have got something from the game they probably didn't deserve, even though they weren't as bad as some on here claim.

[saunders_heroes]

traffic was a nightmare

This is what happens when the owners tell all and sundry that they're not bothered about the traffic management flow outside of Villa Park.

Perhaps this might have been a factor?

Took me an hour to get home when normally it’s 20 minutes.

[Clampy]

traffic was a nightmare

This is what happens when the owners tell all and sundry that they're not bothered about the traffic management flow outside of Villa Park.

Perhaps this might have been a factor?

No, I've never heard of him either.

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

traffic was a nightmare

This is what happens when the owners tell all and sundry that they're not bothered about the traffic management flow outside of Villa Park.

Perhaps this might have been a factor?

Few things in life depress me more than the insane popularity of vloggers. It's no wonder the country's in a mess, it's bursting with people who make celebrities of thickos.

[LukeJames]

I'm claiming the obligatory crap 'can he play left back?' joke.

[Legion]

Would an 'in the hole' joke be inappropriate?

[LukeJames]

Always worth it for the Gif!